Patients get to ‘shake’ it up to avoid diabetes

Diabetics will be encouraged to try a soup and shakes weight-loss plan as the health service steps up efforts to tackle a condition that costs the NHS billions a year.

Some 5,000 patients will get access to the diet programme after NHS England said results from a trial showed almost half of people who undertook the plan saw their type two diabetes go into remission after a year. Patients who have been diagnosed with the condition in the last six years will be given socalled “total diet replacement products”.